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Posts tagged “Kitchen Cleanup”

Good Product: Easy Drain Produce Cleaning Net

Take a look at this "floating net" - a very practical small-space solution. It takes up way less room than a colander, but it gives you plenty of space still to rinse all your fresh produce from the f...

Beautiful Kitchen Tools from Labour and Wait

Kristin's post below about the windowbox herb garden in Notting Hill has us thinking about England and all the old-fashioned kitchen tools you can find through a few good companies there. One of our f...

Good Question: Looking for Bright and Colorful Tea Towels

Here's another colorful kitchen question to go along with this morning's paint color advice. This one is from reader Marina, and she's looking for some colorful kitchen tea towels. My teensy kitchen...

Good Question: How to Clean Rusty Dansk Cookware

I have a full set of the Dansk (DANSK IHC KOBENWARE on bottoms) Kobenstyle cookware in navy blue and white that has served me well, but the bottoms of all of the pots and pans have rusted and leave ru...

Good Question: Earth Friendly Kitchen Trash Bags?

I was wondering what you recommend as a good kitchen trash bag. Right now I use grocery store bags. I like to bring my own earth friendly bag shopping with me, but then I am out of trash bags! What...

Good Product: Cast Heavy-duty Aluminum Scoops from Garrett Wade

Garrett Wade is a small company that sells things for shop work - woodworking, tools, camping equipment. They also have a small, well-curated selection of heavy-duty kitchen tools, including these s...

Vote! More 2008 Candidate Aprons

We already covered the Democratic front runners below - want a Barack or Hillary apron to carry you through tonight's Super Tuesday festivities? Now for the other half. Is Mitt Romney your homeboy? ...

Good Product: Coffee Grinder Brush

We've given you tips on how to clean a coffee grinder, but another really useful tool specifically for this purpose is the coffee grinder brush. ...

Bee's Oil and Martha Stewart's China
Kitchen-related design from our network

Here are a few delicious tidbits from around our network of Apartment Therapy home sites. Our cutting boards are not pampered as they should be (they do so much work in our kitchen!) and we're think...

Julia Child Apron

How would you like to have the kitchen goddess Julia Child watching over your cakes and tortes? Check out this limited edition Julia Child Apron. It's a full bib apron with two pockets, and it's han...

Smeg Horizontal Dishwasher for Small Kitchens

How we wanted a dishwasher in our old and tiny galley kitchen; everyday cooking and washing up weren't bad, but when we had a dinner party dishes really stacked up on our limited counter space. This...

Reader Tip: Get Dishes Sparkling with Vinegar

Full homes and big parties mean extra dishes to wash. Reader Rebekah sent in this good tip for getting your dishes extra clean and sparkly. She says: Pour distilled vinegar in your rinse cycle spot ...

Rustic Wire Dish Rack

Do you keep your dish rack out all the time? We do, and that standard white plastic isn't the most attractive part of our kitchen. We just spotted this Wire Dish Rack, on sale at Smith & Hawken ...

Tricky Kitchen Products from Atypk

On Halloween, a day where things take on different disguises and deceptive appearances, here are some kitchen products from Atypk that made us look twice. The Saucisson Sponge can hang from its t...

Survey: Do You Wash Your Fruits and Vegetables?

How important to you is it to wash your fruits and vegetables before eating? We were considering this while happily munching an apple in the U-Pick orchard last week. We take care to wash sandy, gri...

Good Question: Compostable Kitchen Sponges?

Compostable kitchen sponges? This question comes from Sara, who also came up with a great answer! I go through my sponges so frequently and it seems a really terrible waste to throw them in my land...

Creative Ways To Store Dish Soap

How does your dish soap roll? So many readers answered our challenge to ban the dish soap bottle from your kitchen counters. Here's a final set of photos from this challenge: Feline told us she got...

Curing the Kitchen: Canisters at Green Home

Are you Curing your kitchen? If so, take a look at these canisters from Green Home. We're slightly jealous of this perfect setup: transparent square canisters, where everything is visible and easily...

Good Product: Sascha Kaposi Soap Dispenser

Remember last month's challenge to ban the dish soap bottle? We are always in favor of diluting our over-concentrated dish detergent and putting it in a non-branded bottle. We showed off some of you...

Kitchen Keeping: Give Me Liberty or Give Me French

Iconic American or totally French, Kitchen readers answered our dish soap challenge and sent us photos showing so many ways to keep dish soap on the counter in handy, beautiful ways. Over the course...

Kitchen Keeping: Send Us Pictures Of Your Dish Soap

Bottle Ban We hope you'll join us in banning the bottle of branded dish soap from your kitchen by tomorrow, 9/30 -- the end of Kitchen Keeping Month. For details on how to send us your pictures, check...

Kitchen Keeping: Ban the Dish Soap Bottle

Here's our Kitchen Keeping Challenge. We hope you'll join us in banning the bottle of branded dish soap from your kitchen by September 30. Replace the promotional dish soap packaging with a bottle th...

Kitchen Keeping:What Brand of Dish Soap Do You Use?

You're soaking in it. Dish soap is something we use in our kitchen every day, but we've never had a full post about it. At first the topic seemed so mundane, but we see there's much to discuss: Does ...

Kitchen Keeping: Don't Use Too Much Dishwasher Soap

The Bosch repair guy scolded us for using way too much dishwasher detergent. We were dropping an Electrasol Tabs (Confession: Yeah, we were using Electrasol because their tins with The Jetsons on t...

Product Review: Gel Pro Chef's Mats

Leather mats in the kitchen? We were slightly dubious of this when we first heard about these Gel Pro Chef's Mats. These mats are made of woven synthetic leather, and they are designed to be much mo...